Monika Ritsch-Marte

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Monika Ritsch-Marte (born September 26, 1961 in Höchst, Vorarlberg ) is an Austrian physicist and university lecturer in the fields of theoretical quantum optics , nonlinear optics and biomedical optics.

Life

Ritsch-Marte grew up on Lake Constance in Vorarlberg , graduated in 1980 from the girls' high school "Gallusstift" in Bregenz and then studied physics at the University of Innsbruck , where she graduated in 1984 with a thesis on Noether symmetries in classical mechanics. In 1985 she went to the University of Waikato in Hamilton (New Zealand) for her doctorate , where she worked with Daniel Frank Walls and Crispin Gardiner in 1988 on the generation and application of non-classical states of light, so-called “squeezed states of light”, PhD. She returned to Innsbruck as a Post-Doc from Peter Zoller , where she remained except for several stays abroad ( Helsinki , JILA / Boulder , Konstanz ). In 1995 Monika Ritsch-Marte completed her habilitation in the field of theoretical physics at the University of Innsbruck, supported by a Charlotte-Bühler habilitation program of the Austrian Research Promotion Fund FWF and an APART grant from the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Luigi Lugiato's group in Milan. Since 1998 she has been a full professor of medical physics at the Medical Faculty of the University of Innsbruck, which brought about a reorientation towards biomedical optics (from then on she published under the double name Ritsch-Marte). With the separation of the universities in Innsbruck in 2004 she became director of the section for biomedical physics at the Medical University of Innsbruck . In 2007 and 2008 she was the first woman to head the Austrian Physical Society as president. In this role she was one of the initiators of the Lise-Meitner Lectures .

For her research achievements and outstanding contributions in the fields of optics and photonics, she was named an OSA Fellow by the Optical Society of America in 2013. In 2014 she was elected a corresponding member in Germany of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Monika Ritsch-Marte is married to the physicist Helmut Ritsch and has two children.

Act

Since switching to applied optics, Ritsch-Marte has been working on the development and application of microscopy methods and optical tweezers . Your working group has shown and implemented various new possibilities for using spatial light modulators (SLM) in the form of a liquid crystal display in light microscopy. As programmable Fourier filters, SLMs allow you to switch back and forth between different microscopy techniques (such as brightfield, darkfield, phase contrast) quickly and without exchanging hardware components.

As part of its ERC Advanced Investigator Grant catchIT (= Coherently Advanced Tissue and Cell Holographic Imaging and Trapping), the Innsbruck group has also advanced the development of optical micromanipulation of increasingly larger particles. In a specially designed optical double-beam trap with a mirror (Dual Beam Mirror Trap) with an extremely large volume for optical manipulation, whole unicellular organisms such as eye animals (Euglena gracilis) could be kept intact and transported in a targeted manner. For even larger particles, a combination of optical tweezers and an ultrasonic trap has been developed.

Another area of ​​research is nonlinear microscopy, e.g. B. chemical-selective microscopy with Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) , which led to the development of CARS microscopy without scanning (non-scanning or wide-fied CARS microscopy).

Ritsch-Marte and her colleague Stefan Bernet hold several patents (e.g. spiral phase contrast or a diffractive moiré lens with adjustable refractive power).

Ritsch-Marte is also committed to promoting women in physics. Together with Claudia Draxl , she headed the “Women in Physics” working group of the Austrian Physical Society for many years. During the time of her chairmanship of the ÖPG, Ritsch-Marte initiated the Lise-Meitner-Lectures , a series of events with public lectures by outstanding physicists, which is organized annually with the DPG.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Austrian Physical Society
  2. ↑ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: female physicists as role models . In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed on July 24, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Medical physicist Monika Ritsch-Marte is made an OSA fellow
  4. ^ The newly elected members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
  5. ↑ Results of the Google patent search
  6. ↑ Lise Meitner Lectures 2008
  7. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Monika Ritsch-Marte at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on May 20, 2019.
  8. ↑ [1]
  9. ↑ Tyrolean State Prize for Science 2011
  10. ↑ Austrian women scientists successful at international "Inventors Fair"
  11. ↑ 2.5 million euros for Monika Ritsch-Marte, research project catchIT
  12. ↑ ERC Advanced Grants 2009 - Updated results (May 2010)
  13. ↑ Cardinal Innitzer Study Fund Natural Science Award goes to the Medical University of Innsbruck
personal data
SURNAME Ritsch-Marte, Monika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian physicist in the field of theoretical quantum optics (until 1998)
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Höchst, Vorarlberg